Politics & Economy audiobooks

Soldier Girls

By: Helen Thorpe

Narrated by: Donna Postel

Length: 15 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Soldier Girls follows the lives of three women on their paths to the military. These women, who are quite different in every way, become friends, and we watch their interaction and also what happens when they are separated. We see their families, their lovers, their spouses, their children. We see them work extremely hard, deal with the... Read more

Mossad

By: Michael Bar-Zohar & Nissim Mishal

Narrated by: Benjamin Isaac

Length: 14 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

The Mossad is widely recognized today as the best intelligence service in the world. It is also the most enigmatic, shrouded in secrecy. In Mossad, authors Michael Bar-Zohar and Nissim Mishal take us behind the closed curtain with riveting, eye-opening, boots-on-the-ground accounts of the most dangerous, most crucial missions in the agency's... Read more

Killing Patton

By: Bill O'Reilly & Martin Dugard

Narrated by: Bill O'Reilly

Length: 9 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Listeners around the world have been enthralled by Killing Lincoln, Killing Kennedy, and Killing Jesus—riveting works of nonfiction that journey into the heart of the most famous murders in history.

Now from Bill O'Reilly, iconic anchor of The O'Reilly Factor, comes the most epic audiobook of all in this multimillion-selling series: Killing... Read more

A Path Appears

By: Nicholas D. Kristof & Sheryl WuDunn

Narrated by: Olivia Wilde

Length: 10 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

An essential, galvanizing narrative about making a difference here and abroad—a road map to becoming the most effective global citizens we can be.

In their number one New York Times best seller Half the Sky, husband-and-wife team Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn brought to light struggles faced by women and girls around the globe, and... Read more

Silicon Valley

By: Christoph Keese

Narrated by: Matthias Lühn

Length: 8 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Spinner, Gründer und Erfinder - Ein Bericht zwischen Panikmache und Euphorie Faszinierend und zum Fürchten zugleich. Wer ins Silicon Valley kommt, fühlt sich manisch-depressiv. Manisch, weil der Ort buchstäblich vibriert vor Erfolg, Erfindergeist, Enthusiasmus und fiebriger Schnelligkeit. Depressiv, weil sofort klar ist, verglichen mit dem... Read more

Thirteen Days in September

By: Lawrence Wright

Narrated by: Mark Bramhall & Lawrence Wright

Length: 11 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW’ S 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR

A gripping day-by-day account of the 1978 Camp David conference, when President Jimmy Carter persuaded Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin and Egyptian president Anwar Sadat to sign the first peace treaty in the modern Middle East, one which endures to this day.

With his... Read more

Zero to One

By: Peter Thiel & Blake Masters

Narrated by: Blake Masters

Length: 4 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER• “This book delivers completely new and refreshing ideas on how to create value in the world.”—Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta

“Peter Thiel has built multiple breakthrough companies, and Zero to One shows how.”—Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX and Tesla

The great secret of our time is that there are still uncharted frontiers to... Read more

Roar

By: Scottie Nell Hughes

Narrated by: Scottie Nell Hughes

Length: 6 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Are you sick and tired of watching your city, state and country spiral out of control and into the hands of liberals, whether Democrats or “Republicans in Name Only?” If so, you will be inspired to make a difference as you read the passionate battle cry of Scottie Nell Hughes.In the past, conservative women worked hard to nurture their homes,... Read more

This Changes Everything

By: Naomi Klein

Narrated by: Ellen Archer

Length: 20 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

The most important book yet from the author of the international bestseller The Shock Doctrine, a brilliant explanation of why the climate crisis challenges us to abandon the core “free market” ideology of our time, restructure the global economy, and remake our political systems.

In short, either we embrace radical change ourselves or radical... Read more

Death of a King

By: Tavis Smiley

Narrated by: Tavis Smiley

Length: 6 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

A revealing and dramatic chronicle of the twelve months leading up to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassination.

Martin Luther King, Jr. died in one of the most shocking assassinations the world has known, but little is remembered about the life he led in his final year. New York Times bestselling author and award-winning broadcaster Tavis... Read more

Off the Sidelines

By: Kirsten Gillibrand

Narrated by: Kirsten Gillibrand & Susan Denaker

Length: 6 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • United States Senator Kirsten Gillibrand recounts her personal journey in public service and galvanizes women to make a meaningful difference in the world around them.
                                                      
“One of the most helpful, readable, down-to-earth, and truly democratic books ever to come out of... Read more

One Million Steps

By: Bing West

Narrated by: Ray Porter

Length: 7 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Battalion 3/5 suffered the highest number of casualties in the war in Afghanistan. This is the story of one platoon in that distinguished battalion.
 
Aware of U.S. plans to withdraw from the country, knowing their efforts were only a footprint in the sand, the fifty Marines of 3rd Platoon fought in Sangin, the most dangerous district in all of... Read more

Forgetting to Be Afraid

By: Wendy Davis

Narrated by: Hillary Huber

Length: 10 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

An inspiring memoir by one of the country’s brightest new political stars and hero to women’s rights supporters everywhere

In June of 2013, Texas state senator Wendy Davis became an overnight political sensation when she singlehandedly filibustered Governor Rick Perry’s sweeping anti-abortion bill. Her personal story is just as remarkable. The... Read more

13 Hours

By: Mitchell Zuckoff

Length: 7 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

The harrowing, true account from the brave men on the ground who fought back during the Battle of Benghazi -- and the basis of the movie starring Jon Krasinski and directed by Michael Bay.  

13 Hours presents, for the first time ever, the true account of the events of September 11, 2012, when terrorists attacked the US State Department Special... Read more

World Order

By: Henry Kissinger

Narrated by: Nicholas Hormann

Length: 14 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

“Dazzling and instructive . . . [a] magisterial new book.” —Walter Isaacson, Time

"An astute analysis that illuminates many of today's critical international issues." —Kirkus Reviews
 
Henry Kissinger offers in World Order a deep meditation on the roots of international harmony and global disorder. Drawing on his experience as one of the foremost... Read more

The End of Normal

By: James K. Galbraith

Narrated by: L.J. Ganser

Length: 9 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

The years since the Great Crisis of 2008 have seen slow growth, high unemployment, falling home values, chronic deficits, a deepening disaster in Europe-and a stale argument between two false solutions, "austerity" on one side and "stimulus" on the other. Both sides and practically all analyses of the crisis so far take for granted that the... Read more

Lincoln's Gamble

By: Todd Brewster

Narrated by: Todd Brewster

Length: 7 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

A brilliant, authoritative, and riveting account of the most critical six months in Abraham Lincoln’s presidency, when he penned the Emancipation Proclamation and changed the course of the Civil War.On July 12, 1862, Abraham Lincoln spoke for the first time of his intention to free the slaves. On January 1, 1863, Lincoln signed the Emancipation... Read more

Steel Will

By: Shilo Harris & Robin Overby Cox

Narrated by: Johnny Heller

Length: 8 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

On February 19, 2007, SSG Shilo Harris was patrolling an infamous southern Iraqi roadway when his Humvee was struck by an IED. Moments later, three members of his crew were dead and Shilo had sustained severe burns over 35 percent of his body, lost his ears and the skin off his face, and lost much of the use of his badly mangled fingers. This... Read more

The Terrorist's Son

By: Zak Ebrahim

Narrated by: Zak Ebrahim

Length: 2 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

An extraordinary story, never before told: The intimate, behind-the-scenes life of an American boy raised by his terrorist father—the man who planned the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.

What is it like to grow up with a terrorist in your home? Zak Ebrahim was only seven years old when, on November 5th, 1990, his father El-Sayyid Nosair shot and... Read more

Eisenhower

By: Paul Johnson

Narrated by: Jonathan Davis

Length: 4 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Acclaimed historian Paul Johnson's lively, succinct biography of Dwight D. Eisenhower explores how his legacy endures today. In the rousing style he's famous for, celebrated historian Paul Johnson offers a fascinating biography of Dwight D. Eisenhower, focusing particularly on his years as a five-star general and his two terms as president of... Read more

Level Zero Heroes

By: Michael Golembesky & John R. Bruning

Narrated by: Peter Berkrot

Length: 10 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

An elite Marine special operations team, a battle to save downed soldiers in Afghanistan, a fight for survival—an incredible true story of war that became a New York Times bestseller.

In Level Zero Heroes, Michael Golembesky follows the members of U.S. Marine Special Operations Team 8222 on their assignment to the remote and isolated Taliban... Read more

Wisconsin group wants to turn student borrowers into activists

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Through the recession, college tuition skyrocketed at public universities to make up for flagging state funding. Some students who borrowed to keep up with rising costs face crushing debt repayments. Hari Sreenivasan travelled to Wisconsin to report on one group hoping to turn the state's student borrowers into a powerful voting bloc. Read more

The Dark Side of the Game

By: Tim Green

Narrated by: Richard Poe

Length: 7 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Sportscaster and former National Football League defensive end Tim Green reveals what it's really like to play in the NFL in The Dark Side of the Game. In this-the Super Bowl champion of tell-all novels-an eight-year NFL veteran exposes the game he loves, warts and all. This audiobook is packed with hard-hitting inside information only a former... Read more

The Way Forward

By: Paul Ryan

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

THE WAY FORWARD challenges conventional thinking, outlines his political vision for 2014 and beyond, and shows how essential conservatism is for the future of our nation.

Beginning with a careful analysis of the 2012 election--including a look at the challenge the GOP had in reaching a majority of voters and the prevalence of identity... Read more